When I heard the news, I was not happy...at all. Tonight's weather forecast brought awareness that we remain in brutally cold temperatures for the next week. Additionally, we may have two to five inches of snow within a couple days! Yes, it is November. Yes, it is no longer summer. Yes, daylight is getting shorter each day. I understand that. I also accept that we have different seasons for God's wonderfully designed reasons. But to see possible snow accumulation in our forecast...was not what I considered a reason to rejoice.
Winter may seem to last forever but it really doesn't. So I opened up my new 2015 calendar and began counting. As of Saturday, November 15, there are only 125 more days until spring! I know. That sounds very far away. I am not quite ready to keep a running countdown. Yet the reminder that spring will come greatly improved my perspective. It gave me hope.
I began thinking. This life journey is a bit overwhelming at times, too. We know each moment is a precious gift for which we are grateful. Yet sometimes those trying seasons are not what we want to endure. We don't understand or enjoy them. We would much rather be in a different season. We long for something much better.
Psalm 108: 4>5 says: "For great is Your love, higher than the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let Your glory be over all the earth."
Hope....wonderful...amazing...blessed hope is always with us! His love is plentiful and powerful! His faithfulness is alive and amazing! His glory is incredible and immeasurable. He brings us hope...each day, in every circumstance, through His loving Presence, faithfulness and glory! I don't know when the season of this journey will be complete. I have no countdown to claim. But I do know that He is with me, holding me and loving me. I have hope...and that makes all the difference!<3~thl
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